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The Ohio & Southwestern Energy Company's affiliate(1), Strategic Profits Inc. (SPI), a secure payment service provider since 1997, announced today that ViaVid Broadcasting, Inc. ("ViaVid"), (OTC BB:VVDB), a leading provider of financial webcasts, yesterday released news that it is distributing broadband content to Excite for @Home, the leader in broadband, as part of Excite for @Home's Personal Finance and ClickVideo channels.

Under the agreement, the weekly program "Mike Talks About Money", a partnership between ViaVid and Strategic Profits Inc., will now be made available to Excite for @Home's 700,000 broadband subscriber households across Canada.

Michael Campbell, one of Canada's most respected business analysts, hosts "Mike Talks About Money". He is best known as the host of Canada's top rated business show - "Money Talks" - heard across the country on the WIC radio network and throughout North America on cknw.com. He is the Chief Business Analyst for BCTV and the national Canada Tonight broadcast. He is also the senior business analyst for the Vancouver Sun and writes the lead business column three times a week. He has written the national bestseller Cooking the Books With Mike: Michael Campbell's Favourite 50 Recipes for Instant Financial Success.

"Our partnership with ViaVid Broadcasting has proven invaluable... enabling our team to create high quality programming to inform, entertain, and educate the Internet audience" said Catherine Clarke , CEO of Strategic Profits Inc., "We are excited about sharing our content with Excite for @Home".

"We hope this agreement with Excite Canada is the beginning of a strategic partnership where all parties are equally committed to creating compelling programming for the Excite for @Home network." said Brian Kathler, CEO of ViaVid. "We look forward to sharing our financial productions with Excite for @Home's subscribers."

About Strategic Profits Inc.

Strategic Profits Inc. has been providing Internet commerce solutions to small and medium enterprises (SME's), non-profits and charities since 1994 and secure payment services since 1997. SPI provides full Internet service offerings including online education, web hosting and design, Internet marketing, secure shopping cart and payment order systems, as well as secure payment transactions through Royal Bank of Canada. In 1998 SPI launched the communitystorefronts.com e-commerce pilot with their consortium partners Industry Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, GE Capital, and Open Market. The company's recent joint venture partnership with Hyperwallet.com allows SPI to offer secure online cash payment to merchants as part of the SPI turnkey packages. Today communitystorefronts.com is a fully commercialized portal offering online shopping, fundraising, webcasting, and secure payment systems.

About ViaVid Broadcasting Inc.

ViaVid Broadcasting Inc. is a leading edge company specializing in streaming media technology over the Internet. The company has developed a state-of-the-art Digital Video Production/Broadcast Facility that is capable of being live to the Internet 24 hours per day. In addition, the Company has proven expertise in on-site production from numerous remote locations. As a pioneer in the streaming media industry, ViaVid has hands on expertise with all aspects of the technology from construction and maintenance of broadcast networks and servers, to encoding and compression, to post-production/live production services. ViaVid has established numerous strategic partnerships in the industry including; IBM, Play Inc., Microsoft's WindowsMedia.com, Yack.com, Channelseek, and OnNow.com.

ViaVid's content development expertise and streaming video technology will provide their clients, partners and sponsors enhanced coverage and technological capabilities at a fraction of the cost of implementing their own streaming media strategy.

About Excite Canada

Excite Canada, the leader in broadband, is revolutionizing the way Canadians use the Internet to communicate, conduct business, gain information and perform transactions. It provides customers with 24-hour access to the personalized services they demand -- when and where they demand them -- all with one consistent interface. Excite Canada's branded network of content services include: the open-Web portal, www.excite.ca; the broadband Excite for @Home content portal accessible to customers of Rogers, Shaw, Cogeco and Videon @Home high-speed Internet services; and wireless content and applications featured on Rogers AT&T mobile devices. Excite and the Excite logo are trademarks of Excite@Home, used by Excite Canada under license.

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Excite@Home, @Home, and Excite are service marks or registered service marks of At Home Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.

For further information about Strategic Profits Inc.

Catherine Clarke
Strategic Profits, Inc.
(604) 684 5671 or
email: cc@strategicprofitsinc.com
www.strategicprofitsinc.com

For more information about Global Development Group Contact:

Gerard Van Der Berg
Managing Director
Global Development Group
Phone: (613) 228-5695
Fax: (613) 226-5777
Gerard@kcenter.com